On one hand as Ansel Adams said "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", and that still holds true today. You're influencing the picture when you choose you

On one hand as Ansel Adams said "You don't take a photograph, you make it.", and that still holds true today. You're influencing the picture when you choose your camera, your lens, your sensitivity (ISO), your color mode, your white balance, your raw software, your editor, etc etc all the way from the camera to the print. On the other hand, there certainly is a difference between working with the information (pixels) you've captured, and inventing information by either drawing on the image or creating new data. This methodology falls squarely into the gray area between those two.